Note from Brandon: This is an exciting moment for Follow After Ministries, as today we welcome our very first guest blogger. Justin Burkholder, on the pastoral staff at Grace Pointe Ministries and soon-to-be missionary to Guatemala City, shares his thoughts on how to engage the elusive postmodernist lovingly and sensitively. In reading this, I am reminded of the old witticism, “How will they hear unless we listen?” Before I say anything. I am neither…
Pride is undoubtedly the great enemy of all Christian ministry. One area where it often bares its fangs is in ministry transitions—a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately, as I transition from the mission field to ministry in the United States, from a chaplaincy to a pastorate. A simple test to determine if you are bringing an overweening pride into your ministry is this: do you regard yourself as innovative…